Free Speech is more than the First Amendment, which only protects you from the government infringing on your rights. In 2019, that is woefully inadequate. Access to the large social media platforms – Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram – is a prerequisite to meaningful free speech in 2019.

Social media companies certainly will strenuously object to this formulation, but they can hardly complain, given that the federal government has underwritten and undergirded their development.

The vast majority of serious public debate takes place there. Thus, access to large social media platforms is a civil right.

When private companies violate civil rights, we pass laws to stop them from doing so.

That’s what we should do here.

One final point:

I’m seeing a lot of people making this argument: “If a baker shouldn’t be forced to bake a gay wedding cake, then Facebook should be forced to keep people on its platform!!”

Attorney Robert Barnes made this point on Twitter yesterday.

Differences between the baker & Big Tech: 1. The baker doesn’t offer a public service inviting political speech on his platform; 2. The baker doesn’t have special federal immunity from suit for anything he publishes; 3. The baker doesn’t have a monopoly on the public square.

A few other differences between the baker & Big Tech…4. The baker doesn’t receive billions in federal largesse, through tax breaks, federal contracts & overseas protection of IP; 5. The baker didn’t make public promises to his consumers & stockholders to protect #freespeechhttps://t.co/oWv8BPIn8Y

Facebook isn’t Mark Zuckerberg’s personal platform. The premise of this social media site was “come here and engage with people.” It wasn’t “come here so long as your political opinions match our CEO.”

You can mute, block and refuse to follow anyone you believe is undesirable.

Nobody is strapping you to a table and forcing your eyes open while a Paul Joseph Watson video is playing. This isn’t “A Clockwork Orange.”

We have to fight back against this you guys.

As I said the other day, what Facebook is doing is election meddling. It is deliberately silencing political opposition so that the only people who have access to this massive platform are those they deem desirable.

In other words, those whose political positions Mark Zuckerberg approves of.

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Most importantly, there are many other bakers who would gladly bake you the cake you desired, but you are choosing not to utilize them.

Instead you are choosing to harass one business owner in an attempt to make them violate their Christian beliefs …. as egregious a violation of the First Amendment as has ever been witnessed in our country